While many members of the incoming congress have made it clear they want to do away with earmarks, an NBC News/USA Today investigation has found that billions of dollars allocated for those projects over the past 20 years have gone unspent. NBC's Tom Costello reports.

Researchers are trying to create the Big Bang conditions that led to the formation of the earth at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. Harold Hastings with Hofstra Univ. explains the latest success in the project.

Sept. 10: MSNBC's Willie Geist takes a look at a recipe that has more security guards than the president, checks out the new Sarah Palin action figure, and talks about how the Earth may be sucked into a black hole sometime today.

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Artist's concept of what a future telescope might see in looking at the black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87. Clumpy gas swirls around the black hole in an accretion disk, feeding the central beast. The black area at center is the black hole itself, defined by the event horizon, beyond which no

This is a wide-field composite e-Merlin and Hubble Space Telescope image of the Double Quasar. The lensed quasar images are visible as the two bright objects, one above the other. The radio emission seen by e-Merlin is produced by the central black hole in both lensed images. The image also shows